Sentences with phrase «different high quality schools»

I am currently looking to get started in student housing and am trying to compare opportunities across different high quality schools.

Not exact matches

In the second high - quality trial of its kind, published in PLOS ONE, the researchers found an entirely different result to an earlier study carried out in 2012, where omega - 3 supplements were found to have a beneficial effect on the reading ability and working memory of school children with learning needs such as ADHD.

Another question I would ask is what about if some eats an old school, «Diet for a Small Planet» meal that combines different plant protein sources and so ends up with a «high quality» amino acid balance, like beans and whole grains together?

This year the list is topped by four major research pieces: an analysis of how U.S. students from highly educated families perform compare with similarly advantaged students from other countries; a study investigating what students gain when they are taken on field trips to see high - quality theater performances; a study of teacher evaluation systems in four urban school districts that identifies strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation systems; and the results of Education Next's annual survey of public opinion on education.

Perhaps because of limited experience with different science disciplines, the girls closely associated their high school teachers» personal qualities with the attributes of the traditional scientific disciplines.

Detroit parents still have very few high - quality options, despite a number of different reform interventions, including putting a state - appointed emergency manager in charge of the district, pulling the lowest - performing schools into a statewide turnaround district, and allowing a significant number of charter schools to operate.

This may reflect the fact that it is challenging in high - poverty schools to separate the effects of school circumstances from the quality of the principal, leading district administrators to give principals from high - poverty schools a chance at a different school.

While the Committee of Ten did suggest different programs of study for high schools (for example, programs specializing in classical languages, science and mathematics, or modern languages) and introduced the concept of electives to American high schools, its guiding principle was that all students should receive the same high - quality liberal arts education.

Others are attracted because they are looking for a different, safer, or higher quality alternative to the public school in their neighborhood.

Using the same data on Tennessee's high schools, I created lists of «low - performing schools» based on how the schools ranked on different measures of school quality.

School choice attempts to level the playing field between students of different backgrounds by making it possible for all families to have access to a city's high - quality public schools — whether students live near these schools or not.

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Because NCLB allows each state to set its own standards for proficiency, schools in different states with the same percentage of students achieving proficiency may be of markedly different quality if one state has high standards and the other low.

It's National #SchoolChoiceWeek, which is a weeklong campaign held every January to celebrate that education is not one - size - fits - all and that children have different learning styles — so we need to provide all of our families with a range of high - quality schools and empower them to find the right fit for their child.

There are lots of different models that are out there for what high quality in schooling can look like.

The more we coordinate, the more likely we will be able to create the multiple pathways that schools, districts, and states need to create high quality personalized, competency - based systems that produce different results — that are equitable and fair.

Chicago is no different with over 900 arts instructors currently working in schools throughout the city providing high quality, sequential arts learning opportunities to young people.

A new report on primary school teacher quality released by the Center on International Education Benchmarking finds high - performing education systems in Japan, Finland, Hong Kong, and Shanghai have very different approaches to elementary - level teacher training.

For example, low - and high - income parents both select schools based on school quality - but they use different measures of quality, according to a new study of school choice in the journal Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.

More recent high - quality studies have provided evidence that schools improve their performance when they face sanctions (Ahn and Vigdor 2014), that principals and teachers focus time and effort in different ways that improve performance when their school receives low ratings (Rouse, et al 2013), and that teachers threatened with dismissal for an ineffective rating improved their performance (Dee and Wykoff 2014).

Aligning a high - quality PreK experience with its overall education reform goals has helped MCPS achieve significant results: almost 90 percent of Kindergarteners enter first grade with essential early literacy skills; nearly 88 percent of third graders read proficiently; achievement gaps between different racial and ethnic groups across all grade levels have declined by double digits; 90 percent of seniors graduate from high school and about 77 percent of them enroll in college.

At this time, two different schools share the award: one private school which offers specialized services solely to students with learning and attention issues one public school that provides high - quality instruction and support to all students, including those with learning and attention issues.

LEAs may lack the incentives to be active, high - quality authorizers, lack the capacity necessary to oversee charter schools, or view authorizing functions as a burden.38 39 They may also have a fundamentally different understanding of charter schooling.

Each partnership featured a different aspect of their work: addressing the challenge of recruiting high - quality teachers, teacher and staff professional development, access to school district resources and extracurricular activities, and access to high - performing, college preparatory charter school programs.

The instruction was very high quality, he did know what he was talking about but as a nervous and stressed new driver, he made some snarky comments during the lesson that have made me decide to use a different school for my following lessons.

After reviewing many different online defensive driving courses in Texas, I've discovered that there are several high quality traffic schools available in Dallas.

The iPad is a terribly expensive device for schools to purchase in large quantities and with a high quality, lower priced option available with a great app store behind it, I think that next year's survey of educator plans for mobile device purchasing will look drastically different than this year's survey, taken before Google Play for Education was even available.